exactly.. that should definately work.. i have onboard sound and ethernet.. and i disabled both.. but be careful.. in case you ever want to use it again.. remember you disabled it… haha.. i took my ethernet card out and wanted to use the mb’s ethernet and it wasn’t reading the device took me a few minutes to figure out it’s because i disabled it.

problem solved (friend helped me). i have a dell 2400. you can’t turn off the onboard in BIOS for my dell. you can choose between onboard and auto. thats it. i deleted the onboards drivers, but they just redetected and reinstalled. i had to disable it in device manager. I don’t have AGP slots so I got a PCI geforce fx5500. i’m really happy with it. it runs UT2004 like its on crack. and it can handle far cry with no lagging.